Yovela Murzello

A highly resourceful and competent HMI Engineer with a desire to optimize and improve the interactions between humans and their products, processes and systems, which drives my passion for human factors, ergonomics, UX and UI. Keen to contribute my skills, knowledge and creativity in the automotive, transportation, safety-critical and technology industries.

HMI Engineer - Stellantis - Remote (Kitchener, Canada)

(2022-08)

• Accountable for all feedback and intuitiveness of user interfaces within the vehicle and infotainment systems.
• Responsible for the robust development and management of HMI logic and ensures specification alignment with customer functional objectives, electrical engineering specifications and graphical assets.
• Assists with providing HMI solutions to problems that arise during development and validation, as well as when the vehicles are being used by the customers.
• Uses Figma to develop instances of various features shown on the vehicles' displays as part of the UX instantiation process.
• Leads the Learning Committee, which creates and updates training documents on the processes used within the UXE and HMI teams.
• Assisted the User Testing team with remote data collection and analysis, and performed benchmarking on the HMI features of OEM and competitor vehicles.
• Attended the Car.HMI USA 2023, 2024 and 2025 conferences, and led roundtable discussions.

Research Associate - University of Waterloo - Waterloo, Canada

(2022-05 - 2022-12)

• Performed research (80%) and administrative work (20%). This included leading research projects in driver safety, conducting statistical analyses of data, disseminating research outcomes via conference or journal publications, providing technical mentorship and assistance to graduate students, and managing laboratory resources and experimental needs.

Teaching Assistant - University of Waterloo - Waterloo, Canada

(2020-09 - 2021-12)

• Assisted the delivery of the following courses: Cognitive Ergonomics, Human Factors in Design, Human Factors in the Design of Biomedical and Health Systems, Communication in Systems Design / Biomedical Engineering.

MASc - Systems Design Engineering - University of Waterloo (2020-01 - 2022-04)

BSc - Psychology with Management - Heriot-Watt University (2014-09 - 2018-06)